Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Bridlington. You may be able to find further references to Bridlington in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
BRIDLINGTON	a township, a parish, a subdistrict, and a district	Imperial

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Bridlington.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Buckton	coastal township	Bartholomew
BUCKTON	a township	Imperial
Easton	township	Bartholomew
EASTON	a hamlet	Imperial
Grindall	township	Bartholomew
GRINDALL	a chapelry	Imperial
Hilderthorpe	coastal township and village	Bartholomew
HILDERTHORPE	a township	Imperial
Marton	hamlet	Bartholomew
MARTON	a township	Imperial
Newsome	hamlet	Bartholomew
Sewerby	township and village	Bartholomew
Speeton	township and railway station	Bartholomew
SPEETON	a township-chapelry, with a r station	Imperial
Wilsthorpe	township	Bartholomew
WILSTHORPE	a township	Imperial

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Bridlington within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller	Section	No. of Refs.
Daniel Defoe	Letter 9: Eastern Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland	2
John Wesley	1777-80: On the Isle of Man; City Road Chapel; Wesley Visits Lord George Gordon	2
William Camden	Yorkshire: East and North Ridings	1
Thomas Pennant	June 26-July 3: Cheshire to the East Riding	1

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Easton	0	2
Bessingby	0	2
Hilderthorpe	0	2
Sewerby	0	2
Marton	0	2
Boynton	1	2
Wilsthorpe	0	2
Bempton	0	2
Buckton	0	2
Carnaby	0	2
Grindale	0	2
Auburn	0	2
Haisthorpe	0	2
Flamborough	11	2
Speeton	0	2
Argam	0	2
Fraisthorpe	0	2
Thornholme	0	2
Reighton	0	3
Rudston	0	2